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>From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
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>Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:40:29 -0800
>
>Wade inquired:
>
> >Who are, though, the modern shamans...?
>
>Chief Priest Incarnate and Conjurer of the Sacred Vapors of Capital,
>Alan Greenspan is convening one of the most powerful covens in the land
>even as we speak.
>
>(Don't forget, Wade, the shamans only appear as hucksters if you don't
>share their particular paradigm.)
>
>
The shaman Greenspan spent some time in the inner circle of the High
Priestess of Capitalism (the Unknown Ideal) Ayn Rand. And to top it off they
referred to themselves as a "Collective".
I recently watched a documentary about Rand called "A Sense of Life".
Greenspan didn't appear very prominently in this portrayal, except IIRC a
couple pictures and his name on a book. That was one disappointment. Seeing
Rand in filmed footage during interviews with her thick Russian accent and
dark penetrating big eyes was a plus.
Though I'm not much of a fan of Objectivism overall, I can appreciate how
the circumstances of Rand being one of many unwilling guinea pigs in that
"noble experiment" may have shaped her highly controversial anti-Marxian
worldview. If I'm not mistaken, the Bolshevik storming of St. Petersburg led
to the displacement of Rand and her family. Maybe they were too "bourgeois"
for the "proletariat". She lucked out and made it to the U.S. She was not a
fan of communism. If I'm not mistaken, she was not a fan of Kant either.
Poor guy.
As for the "Maestro"...
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